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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes Patty to fall in "Mistakes Were Made"?

2. Carol Monaghan's behavior is described as what in "Good Neighbors"?

3. Patty does not like talking about whom?

4. In what city do the Berglunds reside in "Good Neighbors"?

5. Patty begins to unravel emotionally after learning what?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Richard is invited to stay at the lake house, what is the state of Patty and Walter's marriage?

2. How do Patty and Richard end up taking a road trip? What happens during that trip?

3. Why does Walter invite Richard to stay at his lake house?

4. Who is Ethan Post, and how does he affect Patty and her family?

5. How does Connie feel about Joey Berglund?

6. How do the residents of Ramsey Hill view Patty Berglund?

7. What is Connie Monaghan's relationship to the Berglund family?

8. What is The Fiend of Athens, and how do Walter and Patty interpret it?

9. How does Patty respond to Joey's relationship with Connie?

10. What is Patty's relationship with her two children like?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Walter and Richard as character foils. How are they similar, and how are they different? How do they influence one another? What do their differences say about one another?

Essay Topic 2

Analyze how Walter and Patty's relationship changes over the course of the novel.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the novel's epigraph, which is taken from The Winter's Tale. How does this quote reflect the novel's plot and themes?

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